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ReleaseThe “FURY”

Friday, October 17, 2014

Outgunned and outnumbered, Brad Pitt leads a
formidable cast in the latest non-stop action thriller “Fury” with his crew of
soldiers including Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason
Isaacs, and Scott Eastwood on a deadly mission behind enemy lines during World
War II.

Pioneer
Films releases “Fury’s” poster and trailer where we see Pitt take on the role
of a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy who commands a Sherman tank with
his crew and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his
men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of
Nazi Germany.

“Fury
is not your grandfather’s war movie,” says producer Bill Block, “I don’t think
we’ve seen the physical horror that the armored division went through. Outmanned and outgunned, they only won
through true, raw fighting.”

“No one writes about men at their
most vulnerable the way David does,” says producer John Lesher, who previously
teamed with Ayer on his acclaimed film End of Watch. “In all of his films, I see some common
themes: they are about brotherly love, friendship, fathers and sons, and some
of these themes resonated quite heavily in this script.”

Fury takes place in late-war
Germany, 1945. “The war’s almost over
and this dying elephant – the Nazi empire – is on its last legs,” writer and
director David Ayer explains. “It’s a
different world from your usual war movie, where we celebrate victorious
campaigns like the invasion of the European continent, or D-Day, or the Battle
of the Bulge, these famous battles that American troops have taken part
in. One of the forgotten time periods is
this last gasp of the Nazi empire, with an American army that has been fighting
for years and is on its last reserves of manpower. The men are exhausted. In World War II, you fought until you either
won or died, or were grievously injured and got sent home. The fanatical regime is collapsing, it’s a
confusing environment where anyone can be the enemy – it’s incredibly taxing on
the fighting man’s soul.”